Weekend draw: footwear!
It’s the weekend! Here’s a summary of the week’s posts:
-> An introduction, in which you were encouraged to answer ‘Why don’t you draw?’
-> Your first task, in which you were encouraged to find materials you are familiar with, and put pen to paper.
- > Thoughts about how artists notice things around them and store them for future use
- > An exercise to loosen you up and have fun.
None of these threads are closed, so you are welcome to go back and join in.
I thought it might be fun to get everyone drawing the same topic each weekend. A bit like Illustration Friday, if you are familiar with that site. It should be really interesting to see different styles, media and approaches.
The other day, I met up with an old cartoonist friend who said ‘I remember, you were always good at drawing boots’. She was good at drawing everything else. Anyway, that’s my inspiration for this week’s topic: footwear. Your own, a stranger’s, a friend’s, on the foot or lying discarded on the floor. Here are some I drew on my trip to
Posted: June 2nd, 2007 under Subjects, Weekly round-up, Weekly task.
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Oh good, I like weekend round-ups - I can catch up! I will catch up!
Hooray!!
Oh, oh, I drew two shoes. They aren’t very good (I got the proportion all wrong) but it was fun! I am now convinced I should keep going with the tasks.
SO pleased!!!!
wow, your feet are great! and bebirkenstocked!
i will do mine later.
Well, to be honest, rip-off Birkies from Schuh…
Hello! I did my task whilst procrastinating about tidying my room (I AM THIRTY YEARS OLD BTW). Anyway I am moderately pleased with it; I like the shading but the perspective is all wrong and the shoe needs to be a lot longer, and don’t even ask me what’s going on with the foot strap. Anyway I have decided that I like drawing shoes :)
Hooray for you! Drawing, not tidying - that can be the new DA motto. Do you think enjoying drawing shoes is a girl thing? I love it as well.
Your buckle is expert!
PS, Are we the Birkie brigade here?
(haha I was thinking exactly that as I grabbed the nearest pair of shoes to draw! ;))
For some reason I have always doodled shoes as well - usually ones with high heels even though I own very few pairs of high heeled shoes. I think it must be the inner girlie expressing herself!
Just to add a bit of variation. I gave myself a three minute deadline and came in well under time.
I love the cartoony look. I am going to post about time-limits one day soon, so good work anticipating that!
My daughter’s shoes (Birk-a-likes from M&S)
hello lj lurpak here
This took about two minutes to draw so it’s a bit rough and not quite in proportion; great fun to do though!
I love this picture! OK, I like the shoes, but also I really like the easy style of this.
Another pair of Birkenstocks (well. A Birkenstock.)! Mine has my foot in it.
Not convinced *at all* with the shading - my foot & leg look most peculiar.
Juliet this may sound like a funny thing to say but the drawing of your big toe looks EXACTLY like your big toe!
PS rah for birkenstocks :)
Heh :) It bends inwards, that’s what! Although really it should have the remains of elderly nail varnish on to really resemble my toe (oops, really must sort that out now it’s sandal-season!).
Ha ha!
The buckles/straps are very well observed, though!
Very, very bad pictures of feet.
You do yourself down. I am so used to my own style of doodling that I’d love to look down one day and see a page like this.
I love the way you incorporated the printed owl into this!
I was concentrating on shape/position.
I’m scared of shading.
I found the shoes quite hard, I tried a few pairs!
I like the dots :) It looks a bit like your toes don’t go all the way to the end of the shoes, though, or am I misinterpreting the black dots around the top edge of the shoe? Are they actually decoration on the shoe itself, rather than being the gaps between your toes (as my brain insists on interpreting them).